Jomarie B. Fredericks is deputy general counsel and chief IP and brand counsel for Rotary International, the worldwide association of member Rotary clubs and its Foundation. Her practice includes trademark, international trademark, copyright, licensing, libel, privacy and general corporate law. She and her team are responsible for protecting, policing and licensing Rotary's IP in over 200 countries and territories. Her team was recognized as the 2022 and 2018-19 WTR Industry Awards Not-for-Profit Organization Team of the Year and Jomarie has been personally recognized as a WTR Global Leader and WTR 300 leading corporate trademark professional. Jomarie is the third immediate past president of the International Trademark Association (INTA), a member of INTA’s nominating committee and a board member of the INTA PAC. She is a past member of the USPTO’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) and a board member of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) Foundation. Jomarie received her BA (Speech Communications) and MS (Journalism) from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), her JD from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and her LLM (Intellectual Property) from University of Illinois Chicago Law School (UIC), where she now chairs its Advisory Board.